Ubuntu
cups package

  1. Bug #283811
  2. Comment #61

Comment 61 for bug 283811

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

>By the way: What means Changed in gtk: status: Unknown → Fix Released ??
As I understand it, it means that Gnome have now included a patch in their development version to be able to ask a username and password.

So Gnome will (the day your version of Ubuntu will include this new patch) ask a username and password when
AuthInfoRequired username,password will be in /etc/cups/printers.conf.

Since that bug suggest that it does not really need a password (since it is able to print without giving one), I doubt it will help much.

I note that GNOME have used the following CUPS documentation to write their patch :
http://www.cups.org/doc-1.4/api-cups.html#PASSWORDS_AND_AUTHENTICATION